From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Redifine shortkeys? Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:27:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1142422040.474337.182460@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <87wtevncsi.fsf@laptop.rdc1.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142440232 27121 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 16:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 17:30:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYtB-0002ZM-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:30:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJYtA-0003Ee-LM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:30:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: individual.net H6pFaiwlzbKa0sHgAl6aQA/IarWCTHaI3XljGJd2FE8dh8F5Os User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HFt6cY9XAiocvp8eyZOX6T6qa3w= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138186 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33799 Archived-At: "Robert D. Crawford" writes: > > Are you sure you want to go down that slippery slope? Sometimes it is > better to conform to the environment than it is to make the environment > conform to you. Once you start re-defining keys, it can quickly become > a headache. I agree not messing with this but if he want to go there, here's a start: For saving: (global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'save-buffer) For searching: (global-set-key (kbd "C-f") 'isearch-forward) A problem with the latter is that the bindings that work "inside" isearch still is the same and are more cumbersome to set (it is possible though). Many years ago I rebound stuff in Emacs. That was a bad idea. I could recommend binding commonly used commands to the Fx keys and to use other unbound keys, but in most cases I avoid rebinding Emacs' stanard keys as there is often a logic behind them that gets more useful the more you use Emacs. /Mathias